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Life Lessons We Missed in School

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We have been told many times, that education is the key to the future. For our future to be successful and enjoyable, we must be educated.
On the contrary, all the world over since the industrial revolution in the 1900s, our focus has always been on classroom education to the neglect of our social and cultural education we ought to get at home first before stepping out into the four walls of a classroom.
Lessons from our culture we ought to learn have completely disappeared in this our v generation or if not entirely erased, they have been devalued by us in some sense.

One of my all-time favourite Hollywood movie classics is Top Gun, produced in 1986 and starrs Tom Cruise, who plays the character, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. Pete enrolled in the US Navy with dreams of becoming a Naval Aviator. His regimented millitary training is what makes the movie the more interesting and educative for me.

For instance, he wakes up 6 am prompt everyday, has about 2 or 3 minutes to lay up his bed and about 30 minutes to get himself ready for his everyday compulsory training sessions and aviation practice sessions as well. Surprisingly, all these was timed by his commander. Such that if he is on the training field at 6:31 instead of 6:30, he is considered late and punished accordingly.
No wonder the US navy, the marines and all their millitary departments are helplessly disciplined, focused and time conscious.
These training lessons stay with them through out their lives until their death.

Have you noticed that too or it's just me??

What about you and me, huh?? What life lessons was school, the classroom and education supposed to teach us but we sadly missed it. I'll tell you a few....

A sustainable organised lifestyle
It's a shame,  I was not a boarder whiles in secondary school. Waking up in the morning requires that you properly lay your bed, fold and organise your clothes and all accessories including utensils, so that in your haste at some point to go for class or lectures early, you do not miss where you place this or that. You can always find whatever you are looking without a struggle.
It's a big shame, most of us speak big English today, but we are not organised and neat one bit. Education gave us our big English, but we missed some big life lessons there. Don't you agree?

Respect, Integrity and Honesty: Ah Kwame paa, were these helpful things we were supposed to taught and trained on in school?? Don't you think this is rather a  natural  individual character development and not a conscious lesson that ought to be taught in schools?
Sorry to disappoint you but yes, an important lesson school ought to have taught you and me but missed. Respect is showing a feeling that someone is also as important and valuable just as you see yourself.
Integrity is doing the right thing consistently and effortlessly even when no one is watching you. And honesty is being fair and truthful in all the things you do.
Do not be surprised why we have educated men and women as well as leaders but we are corrupt by nature.
We obviously missed something here.

Life is not a bed roses; the concept of failure, patience, perseverance, maturity, patience, sacrifice and dedication to our everyday activities is by the biggest miss of all lessons for us, especially this generation if you ask me.
We are a generation that want everything fast and easy. We have failed to understand that God in his infinite wisdom made life in compartments; which is in times and seasons. Even God took 7 days to create the world, why did he have time for everything, instead of calling everything into existence at once? Think about that as you read.
Be willing to sacrifice for what you love and believe in, be willing to be dedicated and committed to it with your whole being so that you can expect the results you wish to see. Humility paves way for you in the table of Kings. Learn to stay humble and learn to be able to have an original talent or skill for life.
Today you can be sad, tomorrow you can be happy. Today, you can win, tomorrow you can lose. That's the maturity of life. Understand this concept very well and focus on building your own life instead of wishing you had the life somebody else has.
What are you willing to sacrifice for to be able to get what you are looking for or you desire?
Education and School taught us to be ambitious and competitive.
But life is teaching us to be patient and appreciate everything moment.

Enough said!!!

*Kwame Sarpong*
Freelance Writer

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